FA Chairman Sets England Performance Goal of Winning 2022 World Cup: Daily Soccer Report

FA Chairman Greg Dyke has set a performance goal for the England national team of winning the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

Dyke, who publicly shared his vision today, wants England to reach the semi-finals of Euro 2016 and win the 2022 World Cup tournament in Qatar.

In my opinion, it’s an empty speech. Dyke discussed that he’ll chair a commission to investigate the decline of English players in the Premier League, but all talk and no action isn’t going to change anything. Dyke has an incredibly difficult challenge ahead of him. The easy part is announcing lofty goals of England winning the World Cup. The challenging part is coming up with a solution that will make England footballers more competitive. The Premier League isn’t the problem. The lack of English talent is.

Here are today’s world soccer news headlines:

International soccer

• Greg Dyke sets England 2022 World Cup target — BBC Sport
• FA chairman Greg Dyke calls for radical action to keep England team competitive — Sky Sports
• Venezuela struck by stomach bug ahead of Chile qualifier — Ahram
• Special Report: Qatar 2022 – A crisis of FIFA’s own making — Yahoo
• England u-21 manager Gareth Southgate says Stuart Pearce told him to go for the job — Telegraph
• Rio Ferdinand: I won’t change my mind over quitting England — Evening Standard
• Joachim Löw blasts Real Madrid for ‘incomprehensible’ Mesut Ozil sale — The Guardian

Premier League

• Athletic Bilbao’s Ander Herrera – I never spoke to Manchester United — ESPN
• Wayne Rooney head injury first pictures — The Mail
• Daniel Levy ‘tried to block Mesut Ozil transfer to Arsenal’ on transfer deadline day 2013 — Metro
• Gareth Barry tells how he was driving around waiting for confirmation Everton deal was on — Liverpool Echo
• Jordan Henderson and Aaron Ramsey: Footsoldiers of the revolution — The False Nine
• Manchester City and Tottenham spend big but in a controlled manner — The Guardian
• Book cover revealed for new Sir Alex Ferguson autobiography — Manchester United
• Patrick Barclay: Only a plank would blame Manchester United’s Woodward — Evening Standard
• Ian Holloway banned from touchline for Man United and Swansea matches after penalty outburst — The Mail
• Recent club crest redesigns — Virmalo
• Kevin Mirallas: Belgium hotel summit convinced Romelu Lukaku to join Everton — ESPN
• Arsenal 1-0 Tottenham: Cazorla provides the overloads in midfield, and the through-balls for Giroud and Walcott — Zonal Marking
• Marouane Fellaini did not sacrifice 4m to join Manchester United from Everton — ESPN
• Jose Mourinho: I blocked Demba Ba’s Arsenal move because of Mesut Ozil — Metro
• Remembering the ups and downs of Arsenal’s 1980s deadline day deals — The Guardian
• Ricardo Vaz Te must ‘knuckle down and prove everyone wrong’ says Kevin Nolan — Evening Standard
• Swansea sign u-21 player Kristian Scott from Stoke City — Swansea City
• In fight with broadcasters, Aereo has time on its side: Supreme Court ruling unlikely before 2015 — Giga Om

La Liga

• Cesc Fabregas: I would not have joined Manchester United for double the money — Evening Standard
• Fabio Coentrao cried alongside Ronaldo & Nani as his move to Man United collapsed — 101GG
• Gareth Bale not guaranteed Real Madrid start – assistant coach —  BBC Sport

UEFA Champions League

• Celtic may have to play 2014 Champions League qualifiers at Murrayfield — The Mail

A-League

• Leader Harry Kewell targets major goals — SBS

Football League

• Nottingham Forest manager Billy Davies charged by FA over Wigan incident — Sky Sports

Bundesliga

• Henrikh Mkhitaryan shows value of keeping your transfer window clean — The Guardian

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